The DN

AFTERSHOCKS!!!

1   Aftershocks. Do I just try to ride them? This was already written when they started hitting this morning. Stay WAY safe. Here is the DN that was already written. I'm jumping under a desk. Scary. I'm holding class on center field away from danger. Hoping everything goes well. Be really careful and you have my permission to pray today. 

Written yesterday and early this morning: 

2   How come my forty minutes running all around this morning doesn't count as exercise? I'm beginning to enjoy the first class of the morning being my prep period.

3   When it was next to lunch I saw it as lunch. I used to go off to a pho place and kick back for a while. 

4   Now I can't.

5   I have classes breathing down my neck. The entire morning is getting ready for the day. 

6   So I actually do extreme prep work during my prep period, and that requires running down stairs, forgetting something, running back upstairs, going across campus for mail, and then up and down stairs a few more times. 

7   Okay it isn't vending Candlestick, or even Levi's, but it's a heck of a lot better than the peace and quiet I enjoyed while putting on the pounds.

8   Last night I stayed after school working 'til 6. I got no exercise because I was sitting down, but I did get most everything done for today. 

9   I also started a barbecue last night.

10  I KNOW, I KNOW.

11  Anybody lookin'?

12  That was by design, by the way. I bought a bunch of chicken, so that I can put it in salads and stuff. 

13  The trouble with barbecue is that you need to be checking constantly.

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15   Okay I'm back. 

16  All looks copacetic.

17   Moving On, Part One: is anyone else being tortured by idiotic drivers?

18  This guy tailgated me onto the freeway yesterday with a look in his eyes like Goofy's Mr. Wheeler. Have a look:

19  I'm amazed at how often Goofy makes it into this rag.

20  Ah, all so true.

21  I'm amazed at how I have both guys in me. Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Walker. 

22  Classic. 

23   Fun throwing some video into the DN. Only took me nineteen years. Gottago for a sec. brb. 

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25   BBQ in check.

26   I'm now like Mr. Walker sans traffic.

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28  I have a chicken smudge on my glasses.

29  You know, the GREAT thing about a BBQ is that it is the only thing left that can extend summer.

30   That and baseball.

31   Is it a tease?

32   Or is it the REAL deal?

33   You judge.

34   I gotta go set up the slip 'n' slide.

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36   <fading for a brief moment>

37   We hikin' Cascade?

38    No but f'realz. 

39    How you gonna tell me?

40   That was esoteric. Cascade is a great little hike in Tahoe. Beautiful hike, but why would you name a hike in the forest after a dish soap?

41   #catthatatethecanarysmile

42   Nice night.

43   Good morning.

44   Paul Simon. He was just mentioned on the game, which is on a minuscule teevee playing behind me. 

45   I just turned.

46   They just zoomed in on Paul Simon and Larry Baer talking baseball. 

47    Wow.

48    Art enters life.

49    I teach an entire unit on the Songs of Paul Simon. 

50    When it rains it pours, and when it's still summer, it soars. Not into the Emmy's this year. Sorry. Something had to give. Still summer. 

51   The poets eat this sort of stuff up. 

52    Early evenings and new things. 

53   Might tell you how it works out. Might not. Lovin' it either way.

54   See you later.

55   Stay safe.

56   Peace.

~H~

Yup. And then...aftershocks.

Goodness.

Keep good thoughts.

I'm going to go over our earthquake safety stuff today.

I personally think we should have school out on the fields for

the rest of the week. 

First thoughts.

Love you all.